On 05/24/2011 09:20 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 08:25 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> * This could potentially break sites that are currently using the >> 500-1000 UID range and rely on the order of allocation of UIDs for >> their users on new machines matching with the UIDs on old machines. >> (For instance, NFS UIDs on filesystems matching between a box >> installed with RHEL5 and a box that gets newly installed with F16). > You need to force UIDs in that case anyway, and if you are not using > something like NIS or LDAP then you have to mange that manually anyways, > so I wouldn't make that a stopper for this very welcome change. No, you don't need to force them. ID 500 and up is the long-standing default, so entering a small list of users [and particularly the _first_ user] in the same order will produce matching UID+GID on multiple machines, even without NIS, LDAP, or "management". Changing the floor to 1000 will create extra manual work for such users who add a new system. Also, the change won't produce any net benefit for users with NIS/LDAP/etc if they already have IDs in [500, 1000). They will continue to use those IDs. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
